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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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Special Ops to Obama: Let Us Fight ISIS, Already

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, MS - FEBRUARY 20: Moonlight active-duty Special Boat Team members from the Navy's Gulf Coast team participate in direct action drills on the Pearl River on February 20, 2013 at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. Throughout the six hour training evolution four Special Operations Craft-Riverine boats, or SOC-R's, patrolled the river in formation looking for instructors posing as enemy personnel on the river banks. Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen, or SWCCs, are members of the United States Navy's Special Boat Teams and are responsible for insertion, extraction, and combat fire support for the U.S. Navy SEALs. Fighting simmering frustration in their ranks over ISIS advances in Iraq and Syria, top U.S. special operations commanders say they are building forces for a multi-generational fight—not a war that will be won in the next few years.“We recognize this is a longterm prospect,” said Gen. Joseph Votel, the overall leader of U.S. Special Operations Command, in remarks to The Daily Beast during a special operations forum in Tampa. “We’re patient.”
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